Problem capturing video to separate drive

mbbusch wrote on 3/7/2006, 8:06 PM
Hi all! I have several Hi-8 tapes and older VHS tapes I'm trying to convert to digital with a ADVC-300. I have the Vegas program installed on my "C" drive along with everything else on my computer. It has about 50GB left. I installed a separate 400GB internal drive that I would like to save all of the video I capture to. My problem is when I do this frames drop out like crazy. If I switch the destination folder to the "C" drive everything is fine. I've been choosing the folder from the Advanced Capture/Preferences/Disk Management screen. The new drive is set as the slave to the "C" drive. Do I need to have Vegas installed on the same drive that I'm capturing video to or can they be on separate drives? Is there something set wrong with my new drive? It seems to be working fine. I can copy files to it and play video from it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Jim H wrote on 3/7/2006, 8:18 PM
I can vouch for the fact that you can capture to any drive on your system regardless of where vegas is installed. As for your HD, can't help there except to comment that the drive may not be fast enough... but drives these days are all pretty fast compared to the old days when capture cards had to be married with certain faster drives (I'm talking Amiga days circa early 1990s)
mbbusch wrote on 3/7/2006, 9:18 PM
Thanks. Both drives are 7200 rpm, so I wouldn't think that would be the problem. The drivers have also been updated. If anyone else has any ideas let me know.
rmack350 wrote on 3/7/2006, 9:36 PM
It seems like the most likely thing is a misconfiguration. People will tell you to enable DMA but it should be that way by default.

Since you say it's a slave to the C drive these must be Parallel ATA. Here are some points to check:
-- You must use an 80 conductor ribbon cable for anything faster than ATA33.This sort of cable looks like it has lots more wires than what your CDROM drives were probably fitted with. Compare the two.

--The Master drive always goes on the last connector on the ribbon. The slave always goes on the middle connector.

--You can set the jumpers to Master and Slave or both can be set to Cable Select. If one method isn't working, try the other.

--Some drives have a jumper setting for the Master without other drives present. You might want to double-check the Master's setting.

Rob Mack